Broad longtermist interventions don’t seem so robustly positive to me, in case the additional future capacity is used to do things that are in expectation bad or of deeply uncertain value according to person-affecting views, which is plausible if these views have relatively low representation in the future.
Fair enough. I shouldn’t really have said these broad interventions are robust to person-affecting views because that is admittedly very unclear. I do find these broad interventions to be robustly positive overall though as I think we will get closer to the ‘correct’ population axiology over time.
I’m admittedly unsure if a “correct” axiology even exists, but I do think that continued research can uncover potential objections to different axiologies allowing us to make a more ‘informed’ decision.
Fair enough. I shouldn’t really have said these broad interventions are robust to person-affecting views because that is admittedly very unclear. I do find these broad interventions to be robustly positive overall though as I think we will get closer to the ‘correct’ population axiology over time.
I’m admittedly unsure if a “correct” axiology even exists, but I do think that continued research can uncover potential objections to different axiologies allowing us to make a more ‘informed’ decision.